- Sat Jul 28, 2018 9:43 pm
#319068
I received 2 bicalcaratas in the mail on Thursday. The larger one had some leaves damaged by the shipping process (one leaf was bent completely and I thought I would lose it, along with the best pitcher on the plant, now I'm thinking there is a chance that it will retain the leaf for now but it will have a deep brown scar across half of the leaf.) The other plant was much smaller and arrived with delicate/thin leaves but it looked healthy. Well, when I returned home from work on Friday, the little bical was VERY sad. 3 of the leaves had wilted entirely (they were just hanging there and looked crinkled.) The humidity in Florida is between 80-97%, depending on the time of day. The high temp was 91 and low was 74. It was not exposed to air conditioning nor was it in direct sunlight. All of my other Nepenthes, including the more mature bical, looked fine. I immediately put the little one under a clear plastic dome and, after a few hours, it perked up a bit. Even one of the wilted leaves decided to stand back up. I hope that it's going to be OK. Maybe it is experiencing shock from shipping? Maybe it is just being delicate because it's a bical and is adjusting to a new environment? If it helps at all, this is one of the Brunei orange clones. The other bical, that is doing better, is a seed grown.
The attached pic is the little bical after a few hours recovering under the plastic dome.
The attached pic is the little bical after a few hours recovering under the plastic dome.
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Have: Nepenthes 1 singalana, 2 bicalcarata, 1 albomarginata, 1 burbidgeae X veitchii, 1 glandulifera x robcantleyi, 1 glandulifera x veitchii